The Provost of the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences of the University of Cape Coast, Professor Livingstone Kobina Sam-Amoah, has asked chiefs in the country to have development plans to elevate their communities out of poverty. According to him, chiefs must be initiators of development projects.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, has reiterated his administration’s continuous commitment to work with the leadership of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG-UCC). “My administration will continuously work with UTAG-UCC to champion academic freedom. I encourage UTAG-UCC to always let us discuss issues.

The Deputy Registrar at the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Cape Coast, UCC, Mr. Joseph Sefenu, has advised newly appointed Junior Assistant Registrars to strive to achieve personal development in order to enhance their professional careers. As a result, he charged them to be conversant with the rules and procedures in the University and follow suit to attain personal development. Mr.

Participants at a day’s training workshop on gender have called on health authorities to grant paternity leave to male workers. According to them, the leave would afford husbands to spend enough time with their spouses and new-born babies. They underlined that husbands would also be able to experience many of the great moments in the early stages of their children’s lives. The participants made the call during an interaction session at a workshop on the theme “Gender Sensitive Ethical Practice in Healthcare Delivery”.

The Department of Optometry in collaboration with a United Kingdom-based NGO, Vision Aid Overseas has organised a two-day eye screening exercise for the people of Nkanfoa in Cape Coast.

The Centre for Coastal Management (CCM) in conjunction with the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences is holding an intensive training course on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for selected officials from some government agencies, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) at the University of Cape Coast (UCC). GIS is a computer system built to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage and display all kinds of spatial or geographical data.

A team of researchers from the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences has expressed the University’s commitment to partner government to produce the requisite sugarcane for processing at the Komenda Sugar Factory. The research team led by Dr. Aaron T. Asare of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, through a pilot studies used rapid technology to develop the planting materials to produce a variety of sugarcane with very high level of sucrose and brix (the main products for the production of sugar) at the University’s Experimental Field.

The University of Cape Coast, UCC, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cluster Farming Holding Limited (CFH), a commercial company which focuses on agriculture, aquaculture, sales, food and supply chain management.